Archived Results for August 2009

"I Love You Man" is a funny picture. It is crude, especially the women's potty-mouths (and man, they are good at it), but it is funny. My wife would come in from the next room and ask me to tone down the laughter - good barometer. I tried, but it wasn't easy.

On this Occasion the Nod Goes to the Remake Most film purists, who on occasion give opinion, will never give remakes of good films a first chance (forget the second chance), unless possibly, the subsequent film is on a smaller budget, or has a European director. Recently I viewed "Abre los ojos" ("O

This plodding, short on reasonable dialogue, remake of the Wes Craven film, released in 1972, is watchable if you love gore, rape scenes, long strung out vengeance battles between good and evil foes, with an eventual outcome that may leave you satisfied, and then again, it may not.

This film dealt with the most significant issue of the Bosnian war - the war crimes of genocide of that civilian population of indigenous Bosnians and Croatians. It is the story the Justice by the prosecution of the most significant war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic', by interested parties, including the United States and Canada.

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Julliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. The journalist comes to find that the musician has been suffering from the profound effects of long term schizophrenia.

Some folks like their coffee blonde and sweet, but their comedy black. If you are one of that rare breed, you will probably get quite a few belly laughs from the directorial sophomore effort of Bobcat Goldthwaite: "World's Greatest Dad."

The fan boys leave their small town for a cross country trek to steal the original print of the latest and highly anticipated prequel from the home editing studio at George Lucas's "Skywalker Ranch" in northern California. They are not wanting to take possession of the print for financial gain, they only wish to be the first ones to see it.

"I Got a Tombstone Head and a Graveyard Mind, I Turned 41, I Don't Mind Dying: Who do you Love?" Ronnie Hawkins, one of The Band's earliest front-men when they were known as The Hawks, in the early 1960's before they were known as The Band, sang these words, as a visiting artist, in the rhythm and b

Convicted felon Rev. Armstrong returns back to his neighborhood a changed man looking to take over his father's old church which is in a small steel town; that is riddled with drug dealers, their overseer is a menacing minion of Hell.